Food Insufficiency in the Households of Reproductive-Age Ecuadorian Women: Association with Food and Nutritional Status Indicators

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 20-42

  Weigel, M Margaret ^a,b,c   Armijos, Maria Mercedes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c Science   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

dietary diversity; food acquisition and expenditure; food insecurity; overweight obesity; short stature

Indexed keywords

FOOD POLICY; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; WOMENS STATUS;

ECUADOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; CATERING SERVICE; DIET; ECUADOR; FAMILY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; DIET; ECUADOR; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY;

EID: 84920700167     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2014.953249     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Alaimo K., R. R. Briefel, E. A. Frongillo, Jr., and C. M. Olson. 1998. Food insufficiency exists in the United States: Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). American Journal of Public Health 88:419–426.
2. Alvarez-Uribe, M. C., A. Estrada-Restrepo, and Z. Y. Fonseca-Centeno. 2010. Characterizing Colombian households regarding quality of life-based food insecurity. Revista de Salud Publica 12:877–888.
3. Anderson, S. A. 1990. Core indicators of nutritional state for difficult-to-sample populations. Journal of Nutrition 120:1557–1600.
4. Bauer, K. W., R. Widome, and J. H. Himes. 2012. High food insecurity and its correlates among families living on a rural American Indian reservation. American Journal of Public Health 102:1346–1352.
5. CEPAR. 2005a. Encuesta Demografica y de Salud Materna e Infantil, Informe Final: ENDEMAIN 2004. Quito, Ecuador: CEPAR. http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/979.
6. CEPAR. 2005b. Encuesta Demografica y de Salud Materna e Infantil 2. Metodologia & Anexos. Quito, Ecuador: CEPAR. http://www.cepar.org.ec/endemain_04/nuevo05/indice.htm.
7. Chávez, N., S. Telleen, and Y. O. Kim. 2007. Food insufficiency in urban Latino families. Journal of Immigrant Minority Health 9:197–204.
8. Coleman-Jensen, A., M. Nord, and M. Andrews. 2012. Household food security in the United States in 2011. USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No. 141. http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/884525/err141.pdf.
9. Drewnowski, A. 2009. Obesity, diets, and social inequalities. Nutrition Reviews 67:S36–39.
10. Drewnowski, A., and S. E. Specter. 2004. Poverty and obesity: The role of energy density and energy. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 79:6–16.
11. FAO. 1996. Food: A fundamental human right. Rome: FAO.
12. FAO. 2010. Guidelines for measuring household and individual dietary diversity. Rome: FAO. http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1983e/i1983e00.pdf.
13. FAO. 2012. The state of food insecurity in the world 2012. Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient to accelerate reduction of hunger and malnutrition. Rome: FAO.
14. Franklin, B., A. Jones, D. Love, S. Puckett, J. Macklin, and S. White-Means. 2012. Exploring mediators of food insecurity and obesity: a review of recent literature. Journal of Community Health 37:253–264.
15. Freire, W. B., M. J. Ramirez, P. Belmont, M. J. Mendieta, M. K. Silva, N. Romero, K. Saenz, P. Pineiros, L. F. Gomez, and R. Monge. 2013. Summary. Volume I. National Health and Nutrition Survey of Ecuador. ENSANUT-ECU 2011–2013. Quito, Ecuador: Ministry of Public Health/National Institute of Statistics and Censuses.
16. Gulliford, M. C., D. Mahabir, and B. Rocke. 2003. Food insecurity, food choices, and body mass index in adults: Nutrition transition in Trinidad and Tobago. International Journal of Epidemiology 32:508–516.
17. Hackett, M., A. C. Zubieta, K. Hernandez, and H. Melgar-Quinonez. 2007. Food insecurity and household food supplies in rural Ecuador. Archivos Latinoamericanos Nutrición 57:10–17.
18. Hackett, M., H. Melgar-Quiñonez, and M. C. Uribe. 2008. Internal validity of a household food security scale is consistent among diverse populations participating in a food supplement program in Colombia. BMC Public Health 8:175 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-175.
19. Hackett, M., H. Melgar-Quiñonez, and C.A.Taylor. 2010. Factors associated with household food security of participants of the MANA food supplement program in Colombia. Archivos Latinoamericanos Nutrición 60:42–47.
20. Institute of Medicine (IOM). 2011. Hunger and obesity: Understanding a food insecurity paradigm: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
21. Isanaka, S., M. M. Mora-Plazas, and S. Lopez-Arana. 2007. Food insecurity is highly prevalent and predicts underweight but not overweight in adults and school children from Bogotá, Colombia. Journal of Nutrition 137:2747–2755.
22. Ivers, L.C., and K. A. Cullen. 2011. Food insecurity: Special considerations for women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 94 (6): 1740S–1744S.
23. Jones, A. D., F. M. Ngure, G. Pelto, and S. L. Young. 2013. What are we assessing when we measure food security? A compendium and review of current metrics. Advances in Nutrition 4:481–505.
24. Kim, K., M. K. Kim, Y. J. Shin, and S. S. Lee. 2011. Factors related to household food insecurity in the Republic of Korea. Public Health Nutrition 14:1080–1087.
25. Laraia, B. A., A. M. Siega-Riz, C. Gundersen, and N. Dole. 2006. Psychosocial factors and socio-economic indicators are associated with household food insecurity among pregnant women. Journal of Nutrition 136:177–182.
26. Larson, N. I., and M. T. Story. 2011. Food insecurity and weight status among U.S. children and families: A review of the literature. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 40:166–173.
27. Leyna, G. H, K. S. Mnyika, and E. J. Mmbaga. 2007. Food insufficiency in rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. East African Medicine Journal 84:163–171.
28. Maxwell, S., and M. Smith. 1992. Household food security: A conceptual review. In Household food security: Concepts, indicators, and measurements: A technical review, ed. S. Maxwell and T. Frankenberger. New York/Rome: UNICEF/IFAD. http://www.ifad.org/gender/tools/hfs/hfspub/hfs_1.pdf.
29. Mazur, R. E., G. S. Marquis, and H. H. Jensen. 2003. Diet and food insufficiency among Hispanic youths: Acculturation and socioeconomic factors in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 78:1120–1127.
30. Ministerio de Salud Publica (MSP). 2012. National epidemiological surveillance. [In Spanish.] http://www.salud.gob.ec/direccion-nacional-de-vigilancia-epidemiologica.
31. Moreno-Black, G., and C. Guerrón-Montero. 2005. Speaking of hunger and coping with food insecurity: Experiences in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands. Ecology of Food Nutrition 44:391–420.
32. Muthayya, S., J. H. Rah, J. D. Sugimoto, F. F. Roos, K. Kraemer, and R. E. Black. 2013. The global hidden hunger indices and maps: An advocacy tool for action. PLoS One: 8 (6): e67860. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067860.
33. National Research Council (NRC). 2005. Measuring food insecurity and hunger. Phase 1 Report. Panel to review U.S. Department of Agriculture’s measurement of food security and hunger. Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
34. Nordin, S. M., M. Boyle, and T. M. Kemmer. 2013. Nutrition security in developing nations: Sustainable food, water, and health. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 113:581–595.
35. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). 2011. Underweight, short stature and overweight in adolescents and young women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington, DC: PAHO. http://new.paho.org/hq./index.php? option=com_ docman&task=doc_view&gid=15146&Itemid=3482&lang=pt.
36. Pardilla, M., D. Prasad, S. Suratkar, and J. Gittlesohn. 2013. High levels of household food insecurity on the Navajo Nation. Public Health Nutrition 1:1–8.
37. Radimer, K. L., R. Allsopp, P. W. Harvey, D. W. Firman, and E. K. Watson. 1997. Food insufficiency in Queensland. Australia New Zealand Journal of Public Health 21:303–310.
38. Rose, D., and V. Oliveira. 1997. Nutrient intakes of individuals from food-insufficient households in the United States. American Journal of Public Health 87:1956–1961.
39. Schlüssel, M. M., A. M. Moura da Silva, and R. Pérez-Escamilla. 2013. Household food insecurity and excess weight/obesity among Brazilian women and children: A life-course approach. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 29:219–226.
40. Seligman, H. K., B. A. Laraia, and M. B. Kushel. 2010. Food insecurity is associated with chronic disease among low-income NHANES respondents. Nutrition 140:304–310.
41. Shariff, Z. M., and G. L. Khor. 2005. Obesity and household food insecurity: Evidence from a sample of rural households in Malaysia. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 59:1049–1058.
42. Sorsdahl, K., N. Slopen, and K. Siefert. 2011. Household food insufficiency and mental health in South Africa. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 65:426–431.
43. UNDP. 2010. The real wealth of nations: Pathways to human development. Human Development Report 2010. 20th anniversary ed. http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/reports/270/hdr_2010_en_complete_reprint.pdf.
44. Velásquez-Melendez, G., M. M. Schlüssel, A. S. Brito, S. Puckett, J. Macklin, and S. White-Means. 2011. Mild but not light or severe food insecurity is associated with obesity among Brazilian women. Journal of Nutrition 141:898–902.
45. Vozoris, N. T., and V. S. Tarasuk. 2003. Household food insufficiency is associated with poorer health. Journal of Nutrition 133:120–126.
46. th Annual Meeting. Paper #270007. http://apha.confex.com/ apha/140am/webprogram/Paper270007.html.
47. Weiser, S. D., K. Leiter, D.R. Bangsberg, L. M. Butler, F. Percy-de-Korte, Z. Hlanze, N. Phaladze, V. Iacopino, and M. Heisler. 2007. Food insufficiency is associated with high-risk sexual behavior among women in Botswana and Swaziland. PLoS Med 4:1589–1597.
48. World Bank. 2014. The state of social safety nets 2014. http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/safetynets/publication/the-state-of-social-safety-nets-2014.
49. World Food Program (WFP). 2011. Country strategy 2012 to 2016. Ecuador Country Office. http://www.wfp.org/content/ecuador-country-strategy-2012-2016.
50. WHO. 2007. Growth reference data for 5–19 years. WHO reference 2007. Geneva: WHO. http://www.who.int/growthref/en.
51. WHO. 2010. BMI classification. Geneva: WHO. http://apps.who.int/bmi/index.jsp?introPage=intro_3.html.